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Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks

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This chapter presents an overview of the history of wireless charging technology and recent advance in the field. It also introduces two main wireless charging techniques with their applications in wireless sensor networks.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Yuanyuan Yang & Cong Wang

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Yang, Y., Wang, C. (2015). Introduction. In: Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17656-7_1

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